Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:49:21 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: c99/c++ localised variable definition Message-ID: <p0620075abe20310465da@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050128173327.GI61409@myrddin.originative.co.uk> References: <20050128173327.GI61409@myrddin.originative.co.uk>
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At 5:33 PM +0000 1/28/05, Paul Richards wrote: > >People used to programming in C++ or Perl (and many others) are >used to defining variables as near to use as possible. This has >never been possible before in C, but now with c99 it is. Well, you could get a similar effect by creating a new scope. >Personally, I find the c++/perl convention to be much less error >prone and more intuitive and since c99 now supports it too it seems >the standards body sees the benefits of this approach as well. > >So, are we going to start allowing this feature to be used in >FreeBSD since it would require a pretty major change to style(9). I used to do it that way (by creating new scopes and defining variables in there). The present style(9) caused me to abandon that practice, and in hindsight I think my routines are probably better off with all the variable-declarations grouped together. I don't feel too strongly about it, but I would slightly prefer that style(9) stay as it is on this. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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